RE-UPDATED: Cheney Blackwater Thugs Sentenced To Life And 30-Year Prison Terms For 2007 Slaughter Of 14 Iraqi Civilians Wounding 17 Others

     Tuesday, 14 April 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - Although former not-really-elected Vice-President "Pigheart" Dick "Criminal Notorious" Cheney has yet to be brought to justice in the United States or overseas for his central role in Bush-Cheney Administration CIA torture war crimes against humanity about which acts of torture Cheney upon release of a summary of the United States Senate Torture Report stated he would "do it again" if given the chance to commit further acts of torture nevertheless the noose does appear to be tightening with the conviction and sentencing of at least some of the first of Cheney's worldwide criminal conspiracy of the several times since renamed Blackwater "Blackdeath" contractor thugs made up among others of mercenaries, felons, early release violent prisoners, psychopaths, sadists, the dishonorably discharged, murderers, assassins and the criminally insane four of whom have been brought to justice in a Washington, D.C. Federal Court where the four Blackwater "guards" were convicted last year of a host of extremely violent crimes stemming from the horrific slaughter unleashed by them in 2007 upon innocent Iraqi unarmed civilians killing 14 and injuring 17 others who were caught in a traffic circle in Baghdad's crowded Nisoor Square in what was called a "wartime atrocity".
     Cheney's Blackwater "Blackdeath" contract ex-guard killer former army sniper Nicholas A. Slatten convicted of murder last year was sentenced to life in U.S. federal prison for his role in the slaughter which ignited worldwide outrage and belated wonderment among many as to why Cheney's homicidal maniacs were engaged at all by the U.S. Government to serve in various misnamed roles such as "guards" as well as paid allegedly with cash in the form of palettes of U.S. $100 bills lowered from helicopters for a great many grossly inadequate incomplete construction projects in Iraq which put United States armed forces at increased risk of death and injury due to late and or fraudulently shoddily or never completed projects such as airstrips.
     The other Cheney Blackwater "Blackdeath" contract ex-guard killers Dustin Heard, Evan Liberty and Paul Slough faced multiple counts of manslaughter, attempted manslaughter and using firearms while committing a felony for which they also were convicted in the Washington, D.C. Federal Court last year for their roles in the slaughter of the Iraqi civilians. Prosecutors argued in a daylong hearing that 30-year sentences were not harsh enough as the defendants had continued to maintain their innocence and expressed no remorse claiming they were "under attack" although they had been convicted on the finding that their homicidal rampage was an entirely unprovoked ambush unleashed upon Iraqi civilians caught in traffic.
     Defense attorneys asked for leniency for the killers who repeatedly invoked religion including citing "God as my witness", exoneration in "this life and the next", as well as Dustin Heard telling the judge that he did nothing "wrong", which judge also was told the "verdict is wrong" by Nicholas Slatten sentenced to life in prison for murder for "having started the melee with a precision shot through the head of a young man stopped at the intersection" before also telling the judge "[y]ou know I am innocent, sir". U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth according to The New York Times "strongly disagreed'. He rejected all requests from all parties telling the court that "[b]ased upon the seriousness of the crimes, I find the penalty is not excessive".
     Former not-really-elected Vice-President "Pigheart" Dick "Criminal Notorious" Cheney once head of the giant Halliburton all-purpose government contractor oft-rewarded with enormously profitable no-bid U.S. Government contracts supposedly cut his ties with that company while "serving" (himself) in the office of Vice-President although his rapidly escalating reported income while "serving" (himself) as Vice-President would seem to belie that claim. Halliburton has since payed out $1.1 billion to settle claims against it for its responsibility in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and delayed response leading to a subsequent environmentally disastrous huge oil spill filling the Gulf of Mexico (aka the "Gulf of Corexit") which British Petroleum (BP) now is using to advertise its self-described alleged status as a model corporate citizen while environmentalists and HBO's VICE program have maintained that claim to be as far from the truth as it could be as the Gulf is still filled with an oil and highly toxic Corexit "dispersant" mixture far more toxic than the oil itself actually now merely hidden beneath the surface by BP as reported here in an earlier post. BP's payout to claimants injured by BP's massive oil spill disaster now has topped $5 billion and is expected to reach nearly $10 billion in total payouts.
     During that time of alleged "service" to the United States Cheney also seemingly maintained a very cozy relationship with his Blackwater "Blackdeath" contractor outfit as it was rewarded amply with contracts including in war zones newly created by the Bush-Cheney administration as exemplified above as well as in worldwide positions serving in such dubious roles as "replacing" or "supplementing" Marine guards stationed at worldwide U.S. embassies for example in Pakistan where a local Blackwater office was raided and found by Pakistani police to contain an arsenal of illegal criminally-oriented weapons such as blackjacks, sawed-off shotguns and many others reportedly used in part violently to control long lines of Pakistani visitors waiting outside the United States embassy there. Meanwhile stateside in Texas Dick "Pigheart" Cheney in 2006 with a shotgun shot to the heart area Texas attorney Harry Wittington nearly killing him.
     Cheney also as mentioned above in addition to having maintained his close ties to Halliburton and the many times renamed (after each outrage) Blackwater "Blackdeath" outfit has been found to have played a central role in the Bush Administration's torture program carried out by the CIA committing war crimes against humanity all of which to date has not been known to have resulted in any criminal action against Cheney (who recently was interviewed by Playboy magazine) at home or abroad. Interested readers can find significantly more detailed information in the BBC World News and New York Times articles linked to below as well as several previous posts in the Ninth Amendment concerning the above Baghdad slaughterous rampage, other Blackwater transgressions, Halliburton, Cheney and the CIA's kidnapping and torture program of war crimes against humanity largely committed under the legal nod of CIA Acting General Counsel John "Goodfella" Rizzo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/us/ex-blackwater-guards-sentenced-to-prison-in-2007-killings-of-iraqi-civilians.html?ref=us&_r=0

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32292921

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BREAKING: The Islamic State Terrorists Reportedly Acquire Weapons-Grade Nuclear Material Unknown Capability Or Condition

          Thursday, 10 July 2014, SAADA, YEMEN - Media organizations early this morning have released preliminary news reports that ISIS self-renamed The Islamic State may have acquired weapons-grade nuclear materials at unidentified locations in an unknown condition nor state of capability for use. Meanwhile in the notorious arms bazaar outside of this city a wide selection of major weaponry apparently remains for sale by arms dealers documented to include such weapons as RPG's with a variety of available warheads to any buyer with the funds to make purchases, as is reportedly the case at many locations outside of the United States for weapons such as RPGs. The availability of weapons at this notorious weapons bazaar at Saada extends to many other heavy weapons however even including in less public areas armaments such as shoulder-launched Stinger missiles for sale by one dealer for one million dollars (U.S.) which missiles are known to be capable of taking down airplanes such as commercial passenger airliners.
       The Ninth Amendment editorial board stresses that it has no confirmed information whatsoever as to the actual existence of any type of weapons-grade nuclear materials purchased and/or captured by what has been preliminarily reported to be The Islamic State "terrorists". Recent media reports have focused particularly on the proximity of the group's control of territory in the area of the airport northwest of Baghdad's outskirts as the airport reportedly provides the only escape route for many American critical government personnel presently remaining attached to the United States Embassy and presumably largely confined to the extremely heavily secured United States "Green Zone" in Baghdad.
       The growing presence of United States Marines to supplement existing Marine security, as well as military "advisers" to the Iraqi Army, followed by further combat troops to protect the advisers and help maintain/regain control of the airport, as well as unknown numbers of United States special forces units in and being dispatched to the area and region has been widely reported. The actual total numbers of all these United States forces is unknown and presumably classified especially given foreign combatants and/or "terrorists" in the region are widely reported to collect information from publicly available news reports.
       Reports have not focused on the possibility that even if The Islamic State does not overrun the apparently critical northwest Baghdad airport escape route of last resort for American government personnel what the status may be of the group's access to Stinger missiles which presumably may have fallen into its hands in the large areas of territory the group has overtaken and/or by purchase by the group with the well-publicized extremely ample funding of the Islamic State not only originally from certain (private) wealthy donors in countries such as Saudi Arabia but the very large amounts of funds stolen by the group by overtaking a major Iraqi government bank holding a significant percentage of the country's currency reserves. This is in addition to many large caches of weaponry including much supplied previously by the United States to the Iraqi Army but largely abandoned by fleeing Iraqi troops in their haste to escape the advancing forces of ISIL now renamed The Islamic State.
       This editorial board of the Ninth Amendment must stress that the above information on the extremely serious matter on any acquisition of nuclear materials is based solely on unconfirmed first incomplete reports and should not serve as the basis for any certainty on the part of readers of its accuracy to any degree, which is completely unknown. The lessons of the lies of the Bush Administration as to the presence previously in Iraq of "WMDs" under the control of Saddam Hussein widely now believed by a great  many Americans to have been a heinous bogus justification for the peremptory invasion of Iraq most likely motivated by former Vice President Dick "Pigheart" Cheney's insatiable monstrous greed for oil and cash for his many related commercial endeavors remain fresh in the minds of many Americans and Iraqis including those having suffered enormous personal grief and loss as a result of the pointless ensuing manufactured conflict.
       Concerned readers it is emphasized emphatically are provided the information in this post as that available at this time in UNCONFIRMED BREAKING NEWS reports and are urged absolutely to perform further research and review any developing news in reaching conclusions of their own of what actual facts are or become known based on developing informed sources at this time and the ensuing hours and days.

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